Nick Carbó grew up in Manila, Philippines, the adopted son of wealthy Spanish parents. He began writing poetry as a college student in the United States, and his collections of poetry include El Grupo McDonald’s (1995); Secret Asian Man (2000), which won an Asian American Literary Award; and Andalusian Dawn (2004). Carbó has edited two anthologies of Filipino literature, Returning a Borrowed Tongue: An Anthology of Filipino and Filipino American Poetry (1995) and Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers (2000), and coedited the anthology Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon (2002) with Denise Duhamel, his first wife. His honors and awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Le Château de Lavigny.
Nick Carbo
Studios
Barnard
Nick Carbo worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…